To coincide with the release of the Third edition of the ANPC’s Threatened Plant Translocation Guidelines, APCC12 brought conservation researchers and practitioners together from across Australia to discuss the recent advances and latest scientific findings for successful threatened plant translocations. Species translocations have been an important conservation approach for more than two decades to save threatened species from extinction. With no foreseeable reduction in threats from climate change, urban and agricultural expansion and intensification, and invasive pests and diseases, translocations will be increasingly important into the future.

The biennial Australasian Plant Conservation Conference has become the premier event in Australia to discuss plant conservation issues with a variety of groups from practitioners to researchers.

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APCC12 was held at the CSIRO Discovery Centre, Canberra at the Black Mountain Science and Innovation Park which provides free parking and is centrally located to the Canberra city centre, ANU, the Australian National Botanic Gardens and backs on the beautiful bushland and walking trails of Black Mountain.

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stuDENT Prizes Awarded

Congratulations to Marc Freestone (Australian National University/Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria), Stephanie Chen (University of Sydney) and FernandaCaro Beveridge (University of Queensland) who have each won one of three $250 APCC12 travel grants generously donated to the ANPC. Marc will present preliminary findings that have the potential to stop critically endangered Leek Orchids (Prasophyllum) from going extinct by enabling ex situ breeding programs. Stephanie will discuss population biology with Plantago lanceolata as a model system, with a focus on genetics and seed ecology, to help inform ecological forecasting and conservation decisions under increased environmental change. Fernanda will talk about applying seed ecology of Australian native species to enhance seed-based restoration in degraded habitats.